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Find out what's happening at this month's Hacks/Hackers

Who's speaking?

George Brock (@georgeprof), Professor of Journalism and Neil Maiden (@NeilMaiden), Professor of Digital Creativity, City University London

Brock and Maiden will give us a demo of JUICE, a newsroom tool that blends embedded interactive guidance with creative search algorithms to guide journalists to be both more creative and more productive in news story production. JUICE is the result of a project funded by the Google Digital News Initiative.

Paivar will speak about use of social media as a layer in documentaries as well as using twitter feeds to create a "digital documentary" of historical events. Paivar will show a short selection of his film "Iran's Nuclear Deal: the Inside Story" a production of BBC Persian which has been nominated for EutelSat TV Awards for best programme. Paivar is a senior business correspondent and analyst at BBC World Service and a Knight-Wallace fellow in journalism from University of Michigan.

Basile Simon (@basilesimon), newsroom developer, The Times and Sunday Times and data-journalist, Airwars

Simon will speak about Airwars, which monitors international airstrikes in Syria and Iraq. Set up by Basile and Chris Woods and now involving a team of about 10 people, Airwars is a fantastic example of a collaboration between hacks and hackers. From literacy issues to the loneliness of being a one-man band, Basile will walk us through the struggles the team have faced since they started monitoring bombings in Iraq and Syria two years ago. Basile runs Airwars.org's data engines and builds data-visualisations and workflows for the team of journalists and researchers. Formerly at BBC News Labs, Basile is a newsroom developer at The Times and Sunday Times.

What's the ticket release schedule?

Free tickets will be released on the following schedule:

First batch: Tuesday 8 November at 1pm

Second batch: Friday 11 November at 1pm

Final batch and opening of waiting list: Tuesday 15 November at 1pm

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